Fearless Sifting

First Brittany Zimmerman, now this (from the BH). I don’t know what this means for Mifflin, if anything, but it can’t be good considering the proximity.
I wonder if/when the campus wide email about this will come out. I haven’t gotten one yet.
Edit: Fortunately, no one was killed this time and at least they know who [...]

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Probably not, but University of Idaho President Tim White announced he is considering taking a “leadership position” at another university. However, it does sound like he has the right experience for our current situation.
White took over at U of I during one of the university’s darkest periods. The schools finances were bleak.
The University of Idaho [...]

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Normally, I don’t have the luxury of having the time to do any kind of fact checking and research of the campus papers, but special circumstances and information from an inside source made this DC Editorial Board piece an exception. To make a statement like this shows a total lack of research and understanding of [...]

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In his BH editorial today, Jason Smathers ends with a nice point about how there shouldn’t be a choice between making UW-Madison an elite academic school and keeping it accessible to the people of Wisconsin.
Although tuition caps would be a great relief to the student body, they could prevent an increase intended to maintain the [...]

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Apparently AT&T has eventual plans to bring a TV service to the Madison area that it calls U-verse. It’s not exactly the same thing as cable instead using fiber optics to bring the connection most of the way to your home then copper cable the rest of the way, very similar to how DSL works. [...]

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The Daily Cardinal letter to the editor today by Howard Bregman calling for Mike Leckrone, the director of the UW Marching Band to step down one was one of the most ill-informed, out of touch things I have potentially ever heard. I say this as a freshman member of the band speaking from my experiences [...]

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This Wisconsin State Journal article makes a pretty compelling argument. Sam Clegg and Suchita Shah have both recently argued that a lack of funding from the state legislature is the problem here at UW-Madison. However, recent discussion has lacked a state-wide perspective on the state legislature’s funding of higher education across the state at other [...]

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